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Published 4:00 am, Monday, March 29, 1999

Drowned sailboat racer identified San Francisco The Coast Guard identified the sailor who drowned during a weekend regatta as Harvey Schlasky of Berkeley.

Schlasky died Saturday afternoon when high seas tossed him overboard to his ocean death a few miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge. A Coast Guard rescue crew grabbed him from the water, but could not save him.

Schlasky was a contestant in a Golden Gate Yacht Club-sponsored sailboat race from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands and back. The wind-whipped race was about 40 miles round trip. Schlasky was one of two crew on his boat, The White Lightning. His teammate was able to remain on board.

The Coast Guard, summoned by a distress signal from another boat that saw the tragedy, arrived 15 minutes later.

Woman, 3 kids hurt in crash into tree Oakland Three children and an adult were seriously injured when a car they were in crashed into a tree late Sunday.

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Oakland police said Danette Collier and the three juvenile passengers all suffered multiple injuries after she lost control of her 1970 Mercury Cougar in the 600 block of Capistrano Drive. Officer David Carman said the vehicle hit a tree and a parked car about 7:30 p.m.

A nursing supervisor at Children's Hospital Oakland said the three children are in the intensive care unit. A 7-year-old child was in critical condition. Two boys, ages 9 and 13, were in serious condition.

Collier was taken to Highland Hospital and was in serious but stable condition.

Gays hold "kiss-in' at Catholic cathedral San Francisco A dozen gay activists kissed in front of The City's largest Roman Catholic church Sunday in support of a planned anniversary party for a group that dresses in drag as nuns.

The "kiss-in" at St. Mary's Cathedral was a protest of the San Francisco archdiocese's attempt to reverse a vote by S.F. supervisors allowing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to hold their celebration on Castro Street on Easter.

"We are Americans and we're here to remind everyone that we are all free, equal and beautiful," said a sister who calls herself Sadie.

Archdiocese officials say the sisters mock the church and that such a party would be disrespectful.

Dana Dirende, one of Sunday's 2,000 parishioners, said she was offended by the kiss-in, but that activists had a right to hold it.

"I think it's in bad taste for them to behave that way, but there's so much that's in bad taste, even among the heterosexual community," she said.

San Rafael man dies in Golden Gate leap San Francisco The San Francisco coroner has identified a man who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge Sunday morning as 39-year-old Patrick James Divietri of San Rafael. Divietri jumped from the San Francisco side of the bridge around 8:50 a.m., landing on the ground at Fort Point.

He was pronounced dead at the scene a half-hour later.

Gunman chases, shoots Pittsburg man Pittsburg An 18-year-old man was shot while being chased on foot by an unknown gunman Sunday morning.

Pittsburg police Lt. Bob Gomez said the gunman chased Donald Scott Johnson of Pittsburg down Diane Avenue and shot him once in the right buttock at the corner of Diane and California avenues at 10:35 a.m. Sunday. After the shooting, Johnson ran a block to a home on Patricia Avenue, where a resident called police, Gomez said. The gunman fled on foot.

It's not clear why the gunman was chasing Johnson or why he shot him, Gomez said - adding that Johnson is in stable condition at a local hospital.&lt;